This really...really...bothers me. A lot. The notion of street dates prevents stores that are selling the game from being screwed by having larger stores beat them to the punch. It's not fair to a smaller company when Best Buy gets the game 4 days earlier than everyone else. (or in the case of this example, more than 10 days) This is the opposite of how things work in the press world. IGN gets the whole shebang, lock stock, and barrel while the rest of us wait. If the usual bullshit holds true we'll receive the game with less than 24 hours to complete it and write our review, get it cleaned up, add graphics, build a feature for it, and then launch it at ~9am the morning of release. Unfair hardly covers it.

This really...really...bothers me. A lot. The notion of street dates prevents stores that are selling the game from being screwed by having larger stores beat them to the punch. It's not fair to a smaller company when Best Buy gets the game 4 days earlier than everyone else. (or in the case of this example, more than 10 days) This is the opposite of how things work in the press world. IGN gets the whole shebang, lock stock, and barrel while the rest of us wait. If the usual bullshit holds true we'll receive the game with less than 24 hours to complete it and write our review, get it cleaned up, add graphics, build a feature for it, and then launch it at ~9am the morning of release. Unfair hardly covers it.

If it makes you feel better (probably not) I always wait for several reviews before purchasing. So IGN isn't going to get all of my attention or clicks by a long shot.

Still waiting for my GMG key.. and looks like their website is having issues, because the key page just sits at loading, so I can't see any of my keys right now.. also tried different browsers.... no big deal though..

Still waiting for my GMG key.. and looks like their website is having issues, because the key page just sits at loading, so I can't see any of my keys right now.. also tried different browsers.... no big deal though..

Still waiting for my GMG key.. and looks like their website is having issues, because the key page just sits at loading, so I can't see any of my keys right now.. also tried different browsers.... no big deal though..

nVidia just put out new drivers for a performance boost while playing.

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Featuring performance optimizations of up to 41% in BioShock Infinite, and 71% in Tomb Raider, 314.22 WHQL is an essential update for all GeForce GTX systems. Other highlights include single-GPU and SLI performance improvements of up to 30% in Civilization V, 22% in Sniper Elite V2, and 12% in Sleeping Dogs.

I doubt I'll upgrade unless things are horrible. I skipped their 'essential' driver update for Tomb Raider and it ran just fine using nearly year old drivers.

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I've not followed the game at all. Does one need to finish bioshock 2 before playing?

I doubt it. Ken Levine didn't work on Bioshock 2 (If I remember correctly), and I haven't read anything that suggests the two worlds are related.

One thing I noticed watching the gametrailers review is that they were playing the PC version of the game. I wonder how the console version looks.

From what I've gathered, the console versions look pretty good due to a fantastic art design but suffer from low rez textures similar to those in Dishonored. They also struggle with the frame rate in certain sections --primarily the latter section of the game.

I wish I had a PC capable of running it. Im not a graphics whore by any means but a low framerate really annoys me in a FPS.

The developer then said it was "talking about" such a method, but had not confirmed its inclusion.

"Probably what we're going to do is you'll only be able to get to that mode through some kind of unlock," Levine said last year. "Not unlock in the game through 'left, right, up, down' that kind of thing."

1999 Mode is so named because it harks back to the more hardcore shooters of the nineties. 1999 was also the year that BioShock developer Irrational's System Shock 2 released.

"One of the reasons 1999 Mode is so much more difficult than any other setting is that dying often uses up all your money and then you can't respawn," Tom Bramwell wrote in Eurogamer's 10/10 BioShock Infinite review.

"You're sent back to the main menu and have to resume from your last autosave prior to the section where you died."

A new infographic released by Irrational via its Twitter account revealed that the game features over 10,000 lines of dialogue, a third of which belongs to main characters Booker and Elizabeth.

Well, my enjoyment of the previous games, a $50 Amazon gift card I had burning a hole in my money clip, along with the universally positive reviews have swayed me. Preloading on Steam now. May even stay up late to play tonight.

I am surprised there's no Amazon release day shipping for this... my console version won't show until Wednesday. But it unlocks on Steam tomorrow - anyone know what time that generally happens? I may be sick and work from home.